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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463546803321

Autore

Cann Candi K

Titolo

Virtual Afterlives [[electronic resource] ] : Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-First Century / / Candi K. Cann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky, : University Press of Kentucky, [2014]

ISBN

0-8131-4543-0

0-8131-4549-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Collana

Material Worlds

Disciplina

393

Soggetti

Internet - Social aspects

Bereavement - Social aspects

Death - Social aspects

Memorialization - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Bodiless Memorial; 2. Wearing the Dead; 3. Moving the Dead; 4. Speaking to the Dead; 5. Grieving the Dead in Alternative Spaces; Acknowledgments; Appendix A; Appendix B; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

For millennia, the rituals of death and remembrance have been fixed by time and location, but in the twenty-first century, grieving has become a virtual phenomenon. Today, the dead live on through social media profiles, memorial websites, and saved voicemails that can be accessed at any time. This dramatic cultural shift has made the physical presence of death secondary to the psychological experience of mourning.Virtual Afterlives investigates emerging popular bereavement traditions. Author Candi K. Cann examines new forms of grieving and evaluates how religion and the funeral indus